#original

Anymore, no one's mind is their own. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #modernity #originality #life

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose. ↗

— Nusrat Sultana

#characters #confidence #hope #inspirational #life

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. ↗

— James Stephens

#consist #does #ever #exactly #originality

When you think of somebody all the time it means one of two things - either you hate their guts or you like them a lot. ↗

— Phillip Gwynne

#australia #love #nukkin-ya #young-adult #love

The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#imagination #originality #art

In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil, but those whose own Minds afford them one Instance of this natural Depravity. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#nature

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#originality #nothing

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#originality #unique #thought

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#cliche #novels #originality #writing #influence